Other than kill his team with penalties.
I have to watch the tape to see who was blocking him most of the time. Looked like he was on Connolly quite a bit. But we blocked him all day, he wasn't even a factor.
Solder was a better player than Seymour today.

He helped us more than hurt us. If not for that first PF, we likely go 3 and out, give Raiders the ball in good field position and it could have been a whole different start to the game. 10-0 on the road and a rattled Brady would have been asking for trouble.

He actually got quite a bit of penetration. We lucked out big time with the penalties and there was one play where Brady just got the hand off away before Seymour took him down.

Really, Brady's best drive was on a series where Sey sat out. Not a coincidence IMO.

EDIT: The above has nothing to do with the trade. I just thought he got penetration.

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He was offsides on the play you are talking about.
If he got penetration it wasn't near the football, so that isn't really doing anything special, I could get in the backfield going in the direction they want to block me.
He was not a factor at all, except for the penalties.

Thank You, Richard Seymour. His bone headed play on Brady jump started the Patriots Offensive Juggernaut (as described at a raiders site).

My gut feeling about the Brady take down is that Seymour channeled all his anger at the Patriots organization in that play and it was his INTENTION to take Brady out. Brady was saved when Seymour became aware of the blatancy of his actions and took some of the force off that hit.

He was offsides on the play you are talking about.
If he got penetration it wasn't near the football, so that isn't really doing anything special, I could get in the backfield going in the direction they want to block me.
He was not a factor at all, except for the penalties.

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If you want to bash him for the penalties, fine.

But please don't tell me that getting penetration means nothing if it just so happens the team is fortunate enough to have a run called in the other direction (or that you could do it). That's nonsense. He's a DT. He's not an weakside DE on a zone read where he'll get a free rush. If he knifes through the line, it means he beat our guard and/or center - not because they just sort of let him through. That's ridiculous.